• Donate
  • Subscribe to Newsletter
  • Home
  • About
    • Awards & Recognition
    • Our Mission
    • Our Board
    • Be Our Sponsor!
    • Donors & Supporters
    • Editorial Policy & Terms of Use
    • Comments Policy
    • Our Team
  • Contact
  • Topics
    • Aging
    • Children’s Health
    • Environmental Health
    • Gender health
    • Health Inequities
    • Medicaid
    • Mental Health
    • Oral Health
    • Prison Health
    • Public Health
    • State Health Policy
    • Rural Health
  • Series
    • Voices from the pandemic
    • COVID-19 updates: What’s happening in North Carolina?
    • When kids’ cries for help become crimes
    • Youth Climate Stories
    • Youth climate stories: Outer Banks edition
    • Seeking Help and Getting Handcuffed
    • Unequal Treatment: Mental health parity in North Carolina
    • Storm stories – NC Health News works with teens from SE North Carolina to tell their hurricane experiences
    • Lessons from Abroad: How Europeans have tackled opioid addiction and what the U.S. could learn from them.
  • Health Care Half Hour
  • Health Care Job Listings
  • Coronavirus
  • En Español
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Skip to content
North Carolina Health News

North Carolina Health News

News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.

Donate

Read our articles published in partnership with The Charlotte Ledger

Tag: intellectual and developmental disabilities

Two yellow figures emerge from behind bars and start walking down a path. At the end of the path is a house, but there is a roadblock in the way.
Posted inPrison Health

After prison, individualized reentry plans are cutting recidivism

by Rachel Crumpler September 7, 2022September 6, 2022

By Rachel Crumpler Kitendo Smith has a job at NC State University. He rides the bus to work and anywhere else he needs to go. He is living independently in his own space in Wake County.  It’s a dream for Smith who three months ago didn’t know this life was possible.  “I’ve never been this […]

Blocks spelling out new normal
Posted inHealth Inequities

What does ‘back to normal’ mean for people hit hardest by the pandemic?

by Elizabeth Thompson and Rachel Crumpler August 11, 2022August 30, 2022
Posted inDisabilities

Study finds racial, geographic inequities among recipients of NC disability services

by Taylor Knopf June 16, 2022June 19, 2022
Three seniors (a Black woman and two white men) sit around a table with folders of sheet music spread out in front of them
Posted inAging

NC’s perennially popular senior centers eye post-COVID changes, modernized approaches

by Thomas Goldsmith November 30, 2021November 29, 2021
shows a man in a suit standing at a podium gesturing with his hands. On the front of the podium is the NC state seal. Behind him are a bank of state and US flags
Posted inMental Health

State budget funds some mental health crisis response and hospital diversion efforts

by Taylor Knopf November 18, 2021November 29, 2021
shows a pair of gloved hands handling a syringe of COVID vaccine, you can read the name "Moderna" on the vial
Posted inInfectious Disease

Pandemic cut a deep swath through NC’s centers for people with intellectual, developmental disabilities

by Thomas Goldsmith August 25, 2021August 31, 2022

Posts navigation

1 2 3 … 8 Older posts

Subscribe to our Newsletter

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Latest News

UNC study: States that expanded access to food benefits saw decreases in child neglect, abuse cases

UNC study: States that expanded access to food benefits saw decreases in child neglect, abuse cases

February 1, 2023January 31, 2023
Study: Forever chemicals abundant in fish from contaminated rivers, lakes

Study: Forever chemicals abundant in fish from contaminated rivers, lakes

January 31, 2023January 30, 2023
Two laws provide greater accommodations for pregnant and nursing workers

Two laws provide greater accommodations for pregnant and nursing workers

January 30, 2023January 29, 2023

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
© 2023 News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic